Well can you figure what song this is, it may be in reverse but I think you can do.  Well if it isn’t obvious this audio assignment was to take a song, reverse the audio, if some hints, and then see if you can figure out what this song is.  That is exactly what I […]

Ben Franklin’s Drinkers Dictionary, I did not know such a thing existed until today.  For this daily create we had to pick a saying from the dictionary and then I picked a background that would go with the saying.  And below you will find the final result of my hard work.

Episode 504: How I got Into College In this audio story on the radio, they used different audio techniques to help convey the story. The first thing I notice listening to the story was the music in the background. I felt like the music didn’t really help in telling the story I felt like it was […]

So I watched these two videos about these two radio guys and their experiences. Here I noticed some similarities. Both performers seemed to have different goals for each specific video, […]

“Create your own trashy cover from a favorite book.” I decided to do the cover of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. I chose this cover because it was this book that started my love of William Shakespeare’s plays. Ever since, I’ve read and loved so many of his plays. I looked up trashy covers […]

From listen to Ira Glass describe effective storytelling, I picked up on some key points. I learned that story telling consists of building blocks. Such as, a story should consists of a sequence of events, providing momentum within itself. Another building block he mentioned is bait, or to raise a question from the beginning of … Continue reading Storytelling Tips from Experts →

Daily Create – July 11, 2015 The assignment for today’s daily create is to create your own trashy cover from a favorite book….. I always got a kick out of this children’s book titled, “Cooking with Pooh”. Of course they mean the beloved Winnie the Pooh. However, when you just hear the title it turns … Continue reading Cooking with Poo →

“Here I’d like for people to write a somewhat serious poem, ideally a haiku or tanka, from the point of view of someone who is going to die and knows it. ” I have chosen to write a haiku about a girl who is tragically dying of old age. Sitting here alone Staring out at […]

Feel the cold coming colors slowly fade to black death is a canvas   This was my attempt at a haiku poem, I have never been the best at writing poems but i gave it a shot. I really wish my English teachers had taught the right way to right a haiku.

Feel the cold breeze rushing down my spine Now I close my eyes All these years I was told a haiku is 5-7-5. Apparently I’ve been lied to. After being […]

This is the weekly summary for third week. This week i learned about audio story telling, and how audio story tellings plays a part in our daily life. Over the long week ,i watched many audios clip, that help me to understand the relation that sound plays in audio story...

For this assignment, I was to play 30 seconds of my favorite song, sans lyrics. Is this my favorite song? Hard to say, but it does contain one of my […]

Favorite Song (1 and 1/2 Stars) Description of Assignment: “Take your favorite song. Remove the lyrics. Play only up to thirty seconds of the song. Listener must be able to guess.”   The Story If you guess this song right you might think it’s a little to girly for me but its one my favorite […]

I listened to the radio show The Truth.  This show is described as “movies for your ears.”  That is what ultimately caught my attention because I thought it would be the most entertaining.  I listened to three different stories.  They were … Continue reading →

Inevitable Life as we know it is gone Earth was good to me This daily create was a little dark, but nonetheless pretty easy!

Today’s Daily Create was to write a serious poem from the point of view of someone who is going to die and knows it, preferably in the form of a Haiku. A Haiku is a three line poem with alternating lines of five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables. Link to today’s assignment: http://tdc.ds106.us/ Death … Continue reading Death Haiku →

Poems of death, sounds slightly depressing to me but that was the daily create for today.  We had to write a poem, preferably a haiku or tanka and I did a tanka, about death.  Below you will find the my poems and a link to the original daily create where you can see that I […]

I was originally gonna draw just a plain porch, but ended up drawing column. Which then turned into a house with the porch showing at the front. I have always like the point of view drawings and enjoyed this little project a great deal.

Ira Glass on This American Life While watching part 1 of Ira Glass’ series on storytelling, I learned that by using an anecdote when telling a story even the most boring topic can become exciting to the listeners. Basically, an anecdote is a version of storytelling in which the story becomes a sequence of events instead […]

The prompt for todays Daily Create was to try and draw a picture using only circles, squares, triangles, lines and dots. I thought this was a fun thing to try because I did not know if it would work or … Continue reading →

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Week 3 Daily Create #3 (7/09) Basic Element Drawing: The Daily Create 1278 (7/09) Twitter Tweet My House Today’s Daily Create had us draw a photo using just circles, squares, triangles, dots, and lines. I decided to draw my house and I was able to use all five and some even more than others.    

We can draw everything with these 5 basic elements. Shall we try it? Find a complex subject for your composition and draw it! The five basic elements are: circles, squares, triangles, lines, and dots! I decided to draw a flower in a flower pot for my picture. It actually wasn’t hard, but instead fun!

Episode 504: How I got Into College Overall, how effective do you think audio was for telling the story? Some types of audio techniques that the producers used to convey their story were sound effects, layering of sounds where the music would be in the background of people talking, occasional music, etc.  The host interviewed numerous people […]

Todays Daily Create was to draw a photo using the five basic elements. I chose to draw a house that

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Just like your index and middle finger are used to make bunny shadow puppets, I used mine to make a bunny hand drawing. Which turned out not as good as I had envisioned it.

Can you draw anything with only squares, circles, triangles, lines and dots?  Well that was the assignment, to draw a picture using only these five elements.  I ended up drawing an old Nintendo controller if you can’t tell by the drawling, I know I’m a bad drawer stop hassling me about it.

Daily Create 7-8-2015 For today’s daily create project we asked to draw a picture and incorporate our hand  or in this case part of your hand into the drawing….. I decided to draw finger people, a man and a woman, on my fingers. They are standing outside of their house, the background drawing, hugging each other on … Continue reading Hand and Paper Drawing →

Hand and paper drawing! I’m eating dinner right now and I was trying to think of how I could incorporate my finger into a drawing no body has done yet. Then it hit me, food… food that looks like a finger… finger food… hot dogs! So I drew a hot dog as my daily create! […]

“Now that we have a #ds106 radio up and running creating a 15 to 30 second bumper for the station. What is a bumper? It is a short recording that identifies the radio station with signature music or an expression that makes sure the listeners know what they are tuned...